Lisa Suter, MD

Lisa Gale Suter, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, continuously board certified in both Internal Medicine and Rheumatology since 2001 and 2003, respectively. She is a leading expert in rheumatology performance measurement and currently serves as Director of Quality Measurement Programs at CORE where she directs the MIDS Task Order Development, Revaluation and Implementation of Outcome/Efficiency Measures for Hospital and Eligible Clinicians contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Suter has led, directed or consulted on development of 33 hospital-level outcome measures, 3 clinician-level outcome measures and 11 clinician-level process measures; 25 are in current or planned use in federal payment programs. She is the Acting VA Chief of Rheumatology and, as co-chair of the Quality Measures Subcommittee of the American College of Rheumatology's Quality of Care Committee, oversees all measure development and related activities for the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).  She also continues to study technology assessment and technology adoption in musculoskeletal and inflammatory diseases.